'BradCast' 1/25/2018 (Guest: Nuclear policy analyst Stephen Schwartz)
b"Today, as media covered Republicans' pretense of a "secret society" at the FBI, and Democrats' ongoing speculation about what Special Counsel Robert Mueller may or may not be finding, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, keepers of the so-called "Doomsday Clock" since 1945, announced that they were moving the symbolic clock to two minutes to midnight -- as close as the world has metaphorically been to annihilation since the end of World War II. Nuclear weapons policy analyst STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, former Director the Bulletin, shares the fascinating origin of the Doomsday Clock's creation, and offers insights into why the Bulletin's scientific decided to move the clock forward. He also explains the Pentagon's disturbing new draft "Nuclear Posture Review,\\u201d the dangerous precedent of expanding the potential scenarios under which the US a nuclear attack (including response to non-nuclear events, such as a cyberwarfare attack), and the multiple risks that the Hawaii false missile alert exposed, in light of Trump's erratic threats of war against nuclear-armed North Korea. Plus, Desi Doyen with our latest \\u2018Green News Report' underscores several more reasons for moving the Doomsday Clock forward."